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A Global Agenda for Social Pediatrics and Child Health. Translating the Sustainable Development Goals and Child Rights into Practice – ISSOP Position statement n° 7 Prepared by Sherry Shenoda, Rita Nathawad, Nick Spencer, Raul Mercer and Jeffrey Goldhagen on behalf of ISSOP. Published on ISSOP website in July 2016. This position paper from the International society for social pediatrics and child health (ISSOP) ISSOP proposes a 10 items Global Agenda, developed in the context of the SDGs and a child rights-based approach to health, as a framework and strategy to structure and operationalize social pediatrics practice. It establishes pediatricians as child advocates working in the domains of clinical care, systems development and the generation of public policy. Please quote as: Shenoda S, Nathawad R, Spencer N, Mercer R and Goldhagen J. A Global Agenda for Social Pediatrics and Child Health. Translating the Sustainable Development Goals and Child Rights into Practice – ISSOP Position statement n° 7 [Internet]. ISSOP; 2016 [cited 27th July 2016]. Available on:...

Thanks to Tony Waterston and Raul Mercer, with the contribution of several members, the 27th e-bulletin has been emailed to members and is now available on our website from the download section.If you want to receive it when it is distributed, join ISSOP and register with the discussion list. Details can be found on the Membership page. ISSOP e-Bulletin – Nº 27. May 2017 – CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Meetings and news 2.1 Latest on ISSOP Congress in Budapest2.2 PAS Pediatric Meetings in San Francisco2.3 VI Annual Conference Concha Colomer (Valencia, Spain) 3. International Organisations 3.1 WHO new leadership 4. Current controversy 4.1 FENSA4.2 RCPCH and formula funding latest 5. CHIFA report 6. Publications: 6.1 A Child is a Child6.2 Brazilian government action on nutrition6.3 Lennart Kohler writes6.4 Promoting social and emotional development and...

Thanks to Tony Waterston and Raul Mercer, with the contribution of several members, the 26th e-bulletin has been emailed to members and is now available on our website from the download section.If you want to receive it when it is distributed, join ISSOP and register with the discussion list. Details can be found on the Membership page. ISSOP e-Bulletin – Nº 26. March 2017 – CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Meetings and news 2.1. Voices from the Colombian Congress of Social Paediatrics2.2. ISSOP Annual Meeting in Budapest2.3. World Immunization Week 2017 3. International Organisations 3.1. Global Child3.2. FENSA 4. Current controversy 4.1.Baby-ledfeeding for complementary feeding period: yes or no? 5. CHIFA report 6. Publications: 6.1. Invisible wounds6.2. Atlas on children’s health and the environment6.3. Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America6.4. Thirsting for a future: Water in a Changing Climate6.5. BMJ Pediatrics Open6.6. Letter from WHO in Lancet – conflict of...

Thanks to Tony Waterston and Raul Mercer, with the contribution of several members, the 25th e-bulletin has been emailed to members and is now available on our website from the download section.If you want to receive it when it is distributed, join ISSOP and register with the discussion list. Details can be found on the Membership page. ISSOP e-Bulletin – Nº 25. January 2017 – CONTENTS 1. Introduction 2. Meetings and news 2.1 ISSOP in Hungary 2.2 Joint Statement on Syria from World Economic Forum 2.3 Survey on access to services for disabled children and young people 2.4 RCPCH speaks out on poverty and child health 3. International Organisations: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child 3.1 Turkish Society for Social Paediatrics 3.2 First Rare Disease Day Policy Event 4. Current controversy 4.1 American Academy of Pediatrics statement on protecting immigrant children 4.2 ISSOP position statement on migrant child health 4.3 Trump’s vaccine-commission idea is biased and dangerous 5. CHIFA report 6. Publications: 6.1 Ending legalised violence against children 6.2 State of Inequality: Childhood Immunisation 6. 3 Disability Matters in Britain 2016 6.4 Journal of Human Rights and Social Work (new!) 6.5 Towards the Human Rights-based global community(by Fabrizio and Ilaria...

Thanks to Tony Waterston and Raul Mercer, with the contribution of several members, the 23nd e-bulletin has been emailed to members and is now available on our website from the download section.If you want to receive it when it is distributed, join ISSOP and register with the discussion list. Details can be found on the Membership page. ISSOP e-Bulletin – Nº 23. September 2016 – CONTENT 1. Introduction 2. Meetings and news 2.1 Report of ISSOP annual meeting, Santiago 2.2. Report from Chile by Gonça Yilmaz 2.3. Report from BACCH conference by Caoimhe McKenna 3. International Organisations: UN Committee on the Rights of the Child 3.1. United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) meeting by Andrew Clarke 3.2. IPA: Petition 4. Current controversy 4.1. French cartoonists on the Burkini ban 5. CHIFA news 5.1. CHIFA webinar 6. Publications: Injury prevention saves lives: WHO report 7. Correspondence 7.1 Letter from Nick Cunningham 7.2 Health partnerships from Neil Pakenham...